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William Heather

PEP · Politician

William Heather is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	William "Smiley" Heather · William (Smiley) Heather · William Heather · 威廉·希瑟				[sources]
Alias	Smiley Heather · William "Smiley" Heather · William Heather · William Kati Heather				[sources]
Birth date	1958-07-07				[sources]
Place of birth	Cook Islands				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	Cook Islands				[sources]
Citizenship	Cook Islands · New Zealand				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	William				[sources]
Last name	Heather				[sources]
Political association	Democratic Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q3391029				[sources]
Position	Member of the Parliament of the Cook Islands · Parliament (member, 2006-2010) · Parliament (member, 2011-2014)				[sources]
Education	Onslow College · Tereora College				[sources]
Last change	2026-03-16	Last processed	2026-03-25	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Cook Islands politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

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Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,307

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories340,369

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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Wikidata327,962

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,251

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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